The Original Outdoor Water Feature Designers

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Multi-talented people, fountain designers from the 16th to the late 18th century frequently worked as architects, sculptors, artists, engineers and highly educated scholars all in one person. During the Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci exemplified the artist as a creative wizard, creator and scientific virtuoso. The forces of nature led him to explore the properties and motion of water, and due to his fascination, he systematically captured his findings in his now famed notebooks. Combining imagination with hydraulic and landscaping talent, early Italian water fountain creators changed private villa settings into brilliant water displays full of emblematic implications and natural wonder. Known for his incredible skill in archeology, architecture and garden creations, Pirro Ligorio, the humanist, delivered the vision behind the magnificence in Tivoli. Well versed in humanist subjects and classic scientific texts, some other water feature makers were masterminding the extraordinary water marbles, water attributes and water antics for the countless properties around Florence.

Anglo Saxon Grounds During the Norman Conquest

Anglo Saxon Grounds During the Norman Conquest The arrival of the Normans in the latter half of the eleventh century significantly modified The Anglo-Saxon ways of living. The Normans were better than the Anglo-Saxons at architecture and horticulture when they came into power. But before concentrating on home-life or having the occasion to think about domestic architecture or decoration, the Normans had to subjugate an entire population. Castles were more basic designs and often constructed on blustery hills, where their tenants spent both time and space to exercising offense and defense, while monasteries were major stone buildings, regularly positioned in the widest, most fruitful hollows. Gardening, a quiet occupation, was unfeasible in these unproductive fortifications. Berkeley Castle is perhaps the most unchanged model in existence at present of the early Anglo-Norman form of architecture. The keep is said to date from the time of William the Conqueror. A monumental terrace serves as a deterrent to invaders who would try to mine the walls of the building. Anglo Saxon Grounds Norman Conquest 32883499361.jpg

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A scenic bowling green, enveloped in grass and surrounded by battlements cut out of an ancient yew hedge, creates one of the terraces.